Speaker 1: Hi, This is Lisa THOMASO from Mystic, Connecticut and I
Speaker 1: play Attnyton Country Club.
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Speaker 1: The only person that's possibly thinking about your three point
Speaker 1: in the world is you, So it's history.
Speaker 4: It doesn't even exist anymore. So you have to.
Speaker 1: Physically stop moving, take your four second time out a
Speaker 1: couple seconds, in, a couple seconds out, eyes closed, and
Speaker 1: then just revert back to what is my strategy for today?
Speaker 1: In my strategy for today's relax or my strategy today
Speaker 1: is quiet mind, or my strategy today is just total
Speaker 1: or my strategy to say is calm, or my strategy say.
Speaker 4: Is just have fun.
Speaker 1: So that's why having a strategy and being highly cognizant
Speaker 1: and aware of your and traps both on and off
Speaker 1: the golf course is going to help you get through
Speaker 1: those situations. And Fred, I'm not sitting here saying it's
Speaker 1: going to work every single time guaranteed.
Speaker 4: There might be a day.
Speaker 1: Where you're just not allowing yourself to really buy into it,
Speaker 1: or you're not totally committed to your strategy. So maybe
Speaker 1: you're not one hundred percent there, maybe you're seventy eighty
Speaker 1: percent of the way there, or you just haven't done
Speaker 1: it enough so you're not conditioned enough to really be
Speaker 1: effective at this.
Speaker 4: It takes time, it takes practice, it takes.
Speaker 1: Discipline, and like physical conditioning, it's thought conditioning. You have
Speaker 1: to condition yourself to think better. And I have students
Speaker 1: who start with me and say, Hey, Greg, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm getting so much out of your coaching, but I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm thinking more. And it's not that you're
Speaker 1: thinking more, you're just thinking differently.
Speaker 3: Three step approach to play your best golf ever with
Speaker 3: the head coach Greg Loberto.
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Speaker 3: Here's your host, Fred Green. Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast. Greg.
Speaker 4: Hi, Fred, how are you? I am excited?
Speaker 3: How are you tell me why you're excited?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm talking to you number one, and I know
Speaker 1: that we're going to be talking about an innovative three
Speaker 1: step approach to help golfers play their best golf ever.
Speaker 4: So this is what I do, this is what I love.
Speaker 1: To do, and there's really nothing else I'd rather be
Speaker 1: talking about today.
Speaker 3: Awesome. I'm glad that you're excited because I went through
Speaker 3: your book. I really enjoyed it. It reinforced so many
Speaker 3: things that I think about that I want to accomplish,
Speaker 3: and to me, it really supported everything that Golf Smarter
Speaker 3: has been about since episode number one.
Speaker 4: Great, great, So let's.
Speaker 3: Talk about it. Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 4: You know, can we reverse the table so real quick?
Speaker 4: Can I ask you? Can I to start by asking
Speaker 4: you a question?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: No, all right, let's hey later.
Speaker 3: I asked the questions you, buddy. I gotta tell you
Speaker 3: you're in New York, right, I gotta talk to you
Speaker 3: like yo, I gotta ask ask. I got to ask the.
Speaker 4: Questions, just trying to throw you off a game a
Speaker 4: little bit that.
Speaker 3: I'll go ahead, congratulations, No, go ahead, all right, I'll
Speaker 3: let you. I'll let you ask the first one and
Speaker 3: we'll see where it goes from there.
Speaker 1: And then I'm done asking questions for the rest of
Speaker 1: the rest of the time. What what What was your
Speaker 1: biggest takeaway from the book.
Speaker 3: Hm, I knew I don't like having tests. My biggest
Speaker 3: takeaway from the book was, uh, I'm reviewing right now
Speaker 3: my notes here to uh not not worry about what
Speaker 3: your playing partners are doing. Nice, you know. I I
Speaker 3: have an ongoing issue with my friends who want to
Speaker 3: play from money, and I'm like, you know what, sure,
Speaker 3: I'll play for money. I don't care. Tell me at
Speaker 3: the end of the game what we're doing, right, tell
Speaker 3: me what I owe you, and I'm fine, but let's
Speaker 3: not talk about it the entire time. I don't like
Speaker 3: to focus on the scorecard. I don't want to talk
Speaker 3: about the scorecard. I don't want to hear oh this
Speaker 3: is for Birdie. No, this is for my next shot,
Speaker 3: you know. I mean it's like and if it's a part,
Speaker 3: it's a par great so to me, it reinforced that.
Speaker 4: Awesome, awesome, good stuff, good stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I think it's an area that a lot
Speaker 1: of players and I was just doing a webinar with
Speaker 1: with a beta group for our Mental Game Assessment and
Speaker 1: Learning app on Friday and one of the guys was
Speaker 1: talking about how when he plays for money with his buddies,
Speaker 1: which is pretty much every time he plays golf, that
Speaker 1: he really allows them to get into their head and
Speaker 1: he does better when he's chasing as opposed to in
Speaker 1: the league. But he said, there's no question that playing
Speaker 1: for money, especially in guys that are you know, like
Speaker 1: to talk while they're playing, you know, so to speak
Speaker 1: and try to get into his head, it really impacts
Speaker 1: how he performs. So I think it's it's there's no question,
Speaker 1: you know, whether it's for five dollars or five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars or five million dollars, the dollar amount is almost irrelevant.
Speaker 1: It's the fact that you're playing for something other than
Speaker 1: maybe just you know, for trying to just play your
Speaker 1: best on your own. It's amazing how that little, that
Speaker 1: little nugget can really not only transform the way that
Speaker 1: you think in a negative way, but really impact the
Speaker 1: performance as well.
Speaker 3: What does it say about people or what do you
Speaker 3: learn from people? When there are those who excel when
Speaker 3: the pressure is on, you know, the guys who are like,
Speaker 3: give me the ball type of guy, and then they
Speaker 3: are the people who the pressure is just too much.
Speaker 3: And they completely collapse.
Speaker 4: And I'm sorry for what we're asking specifically about it.
Speaker 3: Well, what how do you identify if you're which one
Speaker 3: of those people? It's pretty obvious to yourself, But how
Speaker 3: do you get past the fact that if you're one
Speaker 3: of those people that crumbles under the pressure? How do
Speaker 3: you get past that?
Speaker 4: Sure? I think you know.
Speaker 1: I think the first step is is golf is so
Speaker 1: much like life, and you can your perspective on it
Speaker 1: is everything. So let's say that you know, you go
Speaker 1: out and you play in a tournament, whether it's against
Speaker 1: your friends or if it's in competition at whatever level.
Speaker 4: And you allow that round where.
Speaker 1: You think you had a very poor performance, maybe based
Speaker 1: on one particular swing that may have cost you the
Speaker 1: match at the end of the round to really impact
Speaker 1: how you view yourself as as a player. And I
Speaker 1: think a really good example is remember when Billy Horses
Speaker 1: showed before he won the FedEx Cup last year, he
Speaker 1: had put that one ball in the water and he
Speaker 1: lost one of the tournaments prior to that, and then
Speaker 1: I think it was literally the next week he bounces
Speaker 1: back or maybe two weeks later and he ends up
Speaker 1: winning the FedEx Cup. Those are the types of shots
Speaker 1: where you could really allow that to define yourself as
Speaker 1: a player, or you can say, okay, if that's my
Speaker 1: weakest link is not being able to perform, And that
Speaker 1: particular shot on the eighteenth hole, when the quote unquote
Speaker 1: pressure was really on, what can I do to get
Speaker 1: better and how can I get started? To make that happen,
Speaker 1: you have to put yourself in those situations, number one,
Speaker 1: to allow yourself to perform. And everybody knows about all
Speaker 1: of the game winning baskets that Michael Jordan hit, but
Speaker 1: there's also the ones that he missed.
Speaker 4: Okay, so how many times are you missing? How many
Speaker 4: times are you performing?
Speaker 1: Sure that's relative to the whole conversation, but you're going
Speaker 1: to learn way more the times where you quote unquote
Speaker 1: failed to perform or you let your ants or automatic
Speaker 1: negative thoughts get in your own way and negatively impact
Speaker 1: your performance. So I'm just going to sum it up
Speaker 1: by saying, take that as an opportunity to improve yourself.
Speaker 1: Recognize that what I call an ant trap or a
Speaker 1: specific situation where you know you're going to have those
Speaker 1: negative thoughts and negative emotions, and just figure out what
Speaker 1: you need to do to get.
Speaker 4: Better the next time. And that's what we're going to
Speaker 4: talk about today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's you talk about Michael Jordan making
Speaker 3: the shot or missing the shot, or anybody on the tour.
Speaker 3: But when Michael Jordan misses the shot on game thirty
Speaker 3: seven of the season, no big deal. When he makes
Speaker 3: the shot on game forty two to win the game,
Speaker 3: no big deal. It's doing it in playoff time. It's
Speaker 3: doing it when the shot is the end of the
Speaker 3: season or not. Which There's guys who like, give me
Speaker 3: the ball. I'm going to do this. The Lebron James
Speaker 3: characters right now, Steph Curry of the Warriors, it's like,
Speaker 3: just give me the ball. You can see it in
Speaker 3: their eyes. They want the ball absolutely.
Speaker 4: And I think you hit a key point here is.
Speaker 1: In golf or in any sport, when you're in that
Speaker 1: pressure situation, you have to want it. You really have
Speaker 1: to welcome that opportunity because that's all it is. It's
Speaker 1: an opportunity to escalate your game to the next level
Speaker 1: and win, lose your draw, whatever the outcome is. It's
Speaker 1: it is, But you have to put yourself in a
Speaker 1: situation where number one, you want to be there and
Speaker 1: then you have to put yourself in a position mentally
Speaker 1: and emotionally where you're allowing yourself to perform in your
Speaker 1: in your most natural state. So very true of everything
Speaker 1: of what we're talking about here. But number one is
Speaker 1: you have to want it. And number two, if you
Speaker 1: do not get the outcome that you desire, it as
Speaker 1: a learning opportunity to improve.
Speaker 3: Okay, you mentioned ants. Let's you talk about ants throughout
Speaker 3: your book, and you just brought it up, So let's
Speaker 3: let's clarify that and get into depth on that.
Speaker 1: Sure, Yeah, where would you Where would you like to
Speaker 1: start with that one? Because it's a it's a it's
Speaker 1: a pretty broad broad concept, Fred, and I think if
Speaker 1: we talk, well, let's let's do this.
Speaker 4: Let's talk about your game specifically.
Speaker 1: What are the one or two or maybe three whatever whatever,
Speaker 1: What are those situations within your game where you know
Speaker 1: you're going to have that negative energy you always you
Speaker 1: already talked about, you know, playing against certain opponents, But
Speaker 1: what else, and maybe it's maybe it's off the course.
Speaker 1: Are there certain things that you think about a certain
Speaker 1: ways that you feel in certain situations where you know
Speaker 1: you're going to have negative energy? What what comes to
Speaker 1: mind when you think about that for your game.
Speaker 3: Well, I really try to avoid the negative energy, so
Speaker 3: I'm trying to focus on where would it be in
Speaker 3: my game during my round that I just you know,
Speaker 3: the obvious one I guess for me and for so
Speaker 3: many people is, oh, I have this hole always gives
Speaker 3: me problems. Yeah, walking up to a t box of
Speaker 3: a hole that I remember some of the good shots
Speaker 3: that I had, but of course I'll remember most of
Speaker 3: the bad shots, including the last time I was here.
Speaker 3: And I always always try to remind myself that history
Speaker 3: has nothing to do with those shot. It really is
Speaker 3: irrelevant to the next shot, So you know, and I
Speaker 3: think what happens to me is I think so hard
Speaker 3: about what what happened last time that that that is
Speaker 3: I'm overcompensating it and it introduces pressure and tension into
Speaker 3: my swing, which recreates the problem absolutely.
Speaker 4: So we'll we'll.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of a lot of players like
Speaker 1: determine as their their nemesis hole, you know that one
Speaker 1: that one course that you know just gets their number
Speaker 1: every single time. So yes, there's absolutely specific holes are
Speaker 1: certainly one of those. I think some other common and
Speaker 1: traps for golfers are the first t you know, you're
Speaker 1: standing on the first tea and maybe you know whether
Speaker 1: you're whether there's people there or it's just your foursome.
Speaker 1: Especially again if you're playing, you know, for in competition
Speaker 1: of any of any sort, you have that your hands
Speaker 1: might be shaking, you might have that pit in your stomach,
Speaker 1: or that you know, that tension in your shoulders or
Speaker 1: your grip wherever it might be, and you know, you
Speaker 1: have a tendency to think about all the wrong things
Speaker 1: in the same time. So your thoughts are a direct
Speaker 1: link to your emotions, and they're they're literally committing petty
Speaker 1: larcy on your game because the impact your performance directly.
Speaker 1: If you're you know, if you're standing on the first
Speaker 1: team and you're thinking about your opponent, or you're thinking
Speaker 1: about the ball going out of bounds or in the
Speaker 1: water or maybe missing it depending on your skill set,
Speaker 1: those are obviously all the wrong thoughts. So you want
Speaker 1: to basically put yourself in a position where I call
Speaker 1: being one hundred percent ready, not only on the first tea,
Speaker 1: but on every single shot right.
Speaker 4: And you know, the.
Speaker 1: Way that you do that is a process that we
Speaker 1: talk about in the book but the very first step
Speaker 1: to becoming one hundred percent ready is you have to
Speaker 1: you have to eliminate your ants or your automatic negative thoughts,
Speaker 1: because there's you hear a lot of times golfers talk
Speaker 1: about how there's really uh, you know, Matt every talked
Speaker 1: about it after his when on Sunday at the Bayhill.
Speaker 1: He said, there's just really no room for for negative
Speaker 1: thoughts or negative emotions out on the golf course.
Speaker 4: And it's so true. It's so true.
Speaker 1: And you know, I like to talk to my golfing
Speaker 1: students about you know, compare this game to being a
Speaker 1: Formula one race car driver or you know, maybe you're
Speaker 1: doing what you know, maybe you're you're walking across a
Speaker 1: rope or a cable like nik We Lenda does over
Speaker 1: a canyon or over Niagara Falls, and he has to
Speaker 1: be totally focused and calm and confident for two to
Speaker 1: three minutes. You know, an F one driver is doing
Speaker 1: it for a couple of hours at a time. I mean,
Speaker 1: their focus level is at a level that is obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, higher than what most people can even conceive of,
Speaker 1: and they're doing it for an extended period of time. Now,
Speaker 1: golf is you're talking about seconds of time where you're
Speaker 1: actually swinging the golf club, and all you need to do,
Speaker 1: or what you really need to do first and foremost
Speaker 1: is you need to eliminate those conscious thought or those
Speaker 1: negative thoughts and just allow yourself to swing. Just swing
Speaker 1: the golf club. If you if you, if you have
Speaker 1: a repeatable swing that works on the range, the only
Speaker 1: reason it's not working on the golf course is because
Speaker 1: you're getting in your own way or you're allowing your
Speaker 1: own conscious thought to directly and negatively impact your swing.
Speaker 3: I'm so conscious of the the the jitters and the
Speaker 3: situations like the first t jitters, which is how you
Speaker 3: open your book. I'm so conscious of that that I
Speaker 3: embrace it and even like if I hit a ball
Speaker 3: in the bunker, I'll embrace that. I'll like, oh, this
Speaker 3: is going to be fun, And I know that helps
Speaker 3: me as opposed to freaking out like oh my god,
Speaker 3: there's people watching.
Speaker 4: Sure, absolutely, And that's that's where you know.
Speaker 1: One of the things that that you know is in
Speaker 1: the book is having a mental game strategy. And if
Speaker 1: you have a mental game strategy going into the round
Speaker 1: of relax or have fun or take it easy, that
Speaker 1: way when you're in that and trap or you hit
Speaker 1: that Aaron shot, and you can.
Speaker 4: Just say to yourself, Hey, you know what, relax.
Speaker 1: Just relax, just like what you're talking about, Fred, because
Speaker 1: it can mean the difference between number one enjoying your
Speaker 1: round of golf at much higher level, but not allowing
Speaker 1: one ant to cascade into another, and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you have an entire colony of ants and your
Speaker 1: entire round is ruined. And then what you focus on
Speaker 1: in the nineteenth hole is how that one shot and
Speaker 1: that one hole really started to allow the wheels to
Speaker 1: start falling. So you're basically making excuses for yourself before
Speaker 1: you round, during your round, and after your round as
Speaker 1: to why you didn't play as well as you should have.
Speaker 4: Oh, the word should have cut us absolutely.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And why is it that when we get to
Speaker 3: the nineteenth hole, And I'm not sure that's exactly what
Speaker 3: you're referring to in your book when you're talking about
Speaker 3: when you get to the nineteenth hole, everybody wants to
Speaker 3: talk about all the crap that went on. No one
Speaker 3: wants to go. I had said, you know, you didn't
Speaker 3: want to see the going Boy, did I have a
Speaker 3: great put on seventeen? Boy was I good? No, it's
Speaker 3: like I screwed that up. Okay? Are we allowed to
Speaker 3: brag it all? Or is it just taking the guy's
Speaker 3: money at the bar? This is all you need to do?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's about listening to how you talk.
Speaker 1: I think it would be good to actually and I'm
Speaker 1: going to devn meaning to do this, but I'm going
Speaker 1: to do this now that we're having this conversation. I
Speaker 1: think if golfers were to just videotape themselves and they're
Speaker 1: playing partners talking on the nineteenth hole about their game,
Speaker 1: and then actually watching it and listening to themselves, I
Speaker 1: think that might be their first sign that they need
Speaker 1: to change their communication post round. But you know, and
Speaker 1: I ask the same question all the time, like why
Speaker 1: are golfers constantly focusing?
Speaker 4: Think about it.
Speaker 1: If you just let's say you just scored, or let's
Speaker 1: just say you shot the best round of your life, right,
Speaker 1: what are you going to do after the.
Speaker 4: Round is over. You're going to tell your score and
Speaker 4: you're gonna go, hey, I.
Speaker 1: Shot a you know, a seventy eight or a sixty
Speaker 1: two or a ninety eight, whatever the number is for you,
Speaker 1: it's totally irrelevant and then you're going to immediately go.
Speaker 1: But it could have been a yep, right, three or
Speaker 1: four or five strokes better. Now, I don't think Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan or any other great athlete, if they have a
Speaker 1: phenomenal performance, is going wow, you know what could have
Speaker 1: scored four more points or you know what, I not
Speaker 1: only I could have had a hat trick plus, or
Speaker 1: you know what, I could have pitched even a little
Speaker 1: bit better than that perfect game.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, they do. Yeah, no, I think that everybody.
Speaker 3: But I think that's what draws us back to golf,
Speaker 3: is that you can always do better. That is why
Speaker 3: we don't quit, even though you know, we've been shooting
Speaker 3: in the low eighties and all of a sudden we
Speaker 3: shoot ninety two and it's like, that's it. I quit.
Speaker 3: I'm going to leave the game. No, No, you like,
Speaker 3: I'm going back because I know I'm better than that. Sure,
Speaker 3: And so I think that even when when I think
Speaker 3: about the time that I shot my lowest round and
Speaker 3: I had a great round there, I still there was
Speaker 3: a ooh if I only you know hmm. Yeah. I try.
Speaker 3: I try to remain calm and not get too excited
Speaker 3: and let other people talk about my score then, you know,
Speaker 3: than me talking about it. And I think that I
Speaker 3: don't know, Humility's got to come in at some point.
Speaker 3: You just want people to patch you on the back,
Speaker 3: but you don't want to walk up to them and say, hey,
Speaker 3: pat me on the back.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, it's communication is is such a big
Speaker 1: part of life, and it's it's a major part of golf.
Speaker 1: And you know, that's I think if I were to
Speaker 1: sum up, you know, the book is eighteen game Changing
Speaker 1: Tips to Play your Best Golf Ever is a subtitle,
Speaker 1: but it's really about improving your communication both internally and
Speaker 1: externally on and.
Speaker 4: Off the golf course.
Speaker 1: Because that's really what we need to do, is we
Speaker 1: just need to really clean up the way that that
Speaker 1: we communicate about our game.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, and I'm again I want to pick stuff
Speaker 3: out of the book. What do you do about playing
Speaker 3: to the competition? You have a chapter about playing if
Speaker 3: you're playing partners horrible and it's interesting how sometimes you
Speaker 3: step up to the game when you're playing partners better
Speaker 3: than you and you can get maybe you do get
Speaker 3: more focused or do you just kind of let it
Speaker 3: go when you're playing with somebody that you know, you know,
Speaker 3: you can give him a stroke a hole and still
Speaker 3: beat them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that's a great question, because this is
Speaker 1: just this could certainly be a very in depth conversation,
Speaker 1: but we'll keep it relatively short. Let's let's think about
Speaker 1: again what happened this past weekend at Bayhill. Hendrick Stenson
Speaker 1: was in the lead after fifty four holes, and he
Speaker 1: was in the zone and he was just firing, just
Speaker 1: firing at pins on Saturday and making all of his putts,
Speaker 1: and you know, things changed a little bit on Sunday
Speaker 1: and then we all found out after the round that
Speaker 1: he was put on the clock.
Speaker 4: I think it was on the fifteenth hole.
Speaker 1: He ended up i think three putting three of the
Speaker 1: last four holes, and he really talked about how being
Speaker 1: put on the clock, you know.
Speaker 4: It threw him off his game.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, you know again, I'm just going to
Speaker 1: go back to you have to use these opportunities as
Speaker 1: learning opportunities as well as an opportunity to really improve
Speaker 1: your mental toughness, because I think playing with a difficult
Speaker 1: or slow or angry player is really one of the
Speaker 1: most challenging areas in golf. I think from a mental perspective,
Speaker 1: because you can really allow their negativity to cascade into
Speaker 1: your own game.
Speaker 4: It's very very easy to do.
Speaker 1: And you know, I talked in the book about how
Speaker 1: one of my students, Patrick had, you know, he had
Speaker 1: gone through my coaching with me, and he was, you know,
Speaker 1: he had identified his top ten and traps. You know,
Speaker 1: what are the situations that are going to bring me
Speaker 1: the most negative energy in my game. And he was
Speaker 1: on a part three and he hit his t shot
Speaker 1: into the bunker and he knew that if he jumped
Speaker 1: into it, into the cart, that his playing partner was
Speaker 1: going to fill his head with all kinds of negativity.
Speaker 1: So he said, you know what, on this whole, I'm
Speaker 1: going to just I'm going to grab my sand wedge,
Speaker 1: my putter, and I'm just going to walk up and
Speaker 1: I'm just going to allow myself to stay in my
Speaker 1: own little world here. He ended up getting up in
Speaker 1: down and saving it for a power. But the key
Speaker 1: story there was he had taken the time to now
Speaker 1: really become aware of the fact that these an traps
Speaker 1: were negatively impacting his game, and he put them on
Speaker 1: high alert. So this was a very specific situation where
Speaker 1: he said, you know what, I know what I need
Speaker 1: to do. I also know that I need to stay
Speaker 1: awake from my playing part or in this particular shot,
Speaker 1: because I want to go and do what I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 4: When he did it, you know, he got up and
Speaker 4: down for his power.
Speaker 1: So part of it is really number one again identifying
Speaker 1: the fact that, okay, that this is just an ant trap.
Speaker 1: This person is just going to make things a little
Speaker 1: bit more challenging for me today. So maybe my strategy
Speaker 1: for today is just to have fun because I know
Speaker 1: that when I play with this particular individual, a lot
Speaker 1: of times I do not have fun. Or maybe my
Speaker 1: strategy is just to focus on me, do not allow
Speaker 1: them to fill to let their negativity cascade into my
Speaker 1: own game, but really use it as an opportunity to
Speaker 1: test and challenge yourself. Because think about it, that the time,
Speaker 1: the only time that really matters is when you're in
Speaker 1: your your preshot routine and you're standing over the golf
Speaker 1: ball getting ready to hit. Everything else that happens outside
Speaker 1: of that is irrelevant to what happens when you're hitting
Speaker 1: the golf ball.
Speaker 4: So again I go back.
Speaker 1: To you know, allowing yourself to put yourself in a
Speaker 1: situation where you're you're totally calm, you're free of negative thought,
Speaker 1: and just just swing, just swing, because you can still
Speaker 1: perform even though you're playing with the difficult playing partner.
Speaker 3: I'm going to take you back to the beginning of
Speaker 3: that that rant, that beginning of your answer there when
Speaker 3: you're talking about Hendrick Stenson and right that we were
Speaker 3: talking about how he was put on the clock.
Speaker 4: Yes, isn't that.
Speaker 3: Interesting, how even at that level that something like that
Speaker 3: which to me if we have to equate it to
Speaker 3: our game. And I don't like to sit here and
Speaker 3: compare what we're doing to what they're doing on the tour,
Speaker 3: but if there's a way to compare it, it will
Speaker 3: take me to the thing that fries me on the
Speaker 3: golf course more than anything, and that is a marshal
Speaker 3: coming up to me to tell me to pick up
Speaker 3: the pace when you know we've spent two of the
Speaker 3: last three holes with one or two guys trying to
Speaker 3: find their ball right. And I go on about this forever,
Speaker 3: but I think that marshals, if they're sitting at the
Speaker 3: end of the fair way and they see the ball
Speaker 3: going errant, they should run over, put their hat where
Speaker 3: the ball is and help us pick up the pace
Speaker 3: we're picking up. We're losing time on it because we're
Speaker 3: looking for balls, and we lose balls on a regular
Speaker 3: basis on the tour, they don't because there's people standing
Speaker 3: around going it's right here, right. So yeah, getting put
Speaker 3: on the clock being told to hurry up, that's gonna
Speaker 3: throw off even some of the best players at the
Speaker 3: moment in the world.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 1: And there's so many things in golf that are just
Speaker 1: completely out of our control and that that is certainly
Speaker 1: a great example of one of them.
Speaker 4: And you just have to know sometimes you just have
Speaker 4: to accept it. Fred As.
Speaker 1: I know that sounds really really simple as we're sitting
Speaker 1: here talk about it, but when you're in you know,
Speaker 1: when you're in that environment and in that situation, I
Speaker 1: know how frustrating it is and I know how challenging
Speaker 1: it can be to really just stay focused on your game.
Speaker 1: But you just also have to realize that there are
Speaker 1: rules to the game. You know, most sports play with
Speaker 1: a clock or some kind of a timer, so you know,
Speaker 1: most sports are timed as well. And again I'm just
Speaker 1: going to you know, just reconfirm here that there's just
Speaker 1: there's just things that are out of our control. The
Speaker 1: only thing that we really have control of is how
Speaker 1: we think standing over the golf ball and our ability
Speaker 1: to put a nice swing on it. Everything else, you know,
Speaker 1: a bad balance, augusta wind, you know, an unlucky break
Speaker 1: or what a sprinklert had anything, those are just you know,
Speaker 1: the marshal that somebody can coughing and your back swing.
Speaker 1: There's so many things that are just completely out of
Speaker 1: our control. And playing with a mental game strategy, constantly
Speaker 1: focusing on identifying and crushing your stopping those ants whenever,
Speaker 1: whenever they crop up is what's going to bring you
Speaker 1: back and get you focused and allow yourself to play
Speaker 1: in the zone in every shot.
Speaker 3: How do we get to that zone? And do we
Speaker 3: need to be in the zone? Who I hate asking
Speaker 3: two questions at once. Let me just ask this then.
Speaker 3: Do we need to be in the zone the entire round?
Speaker 4: Absolutely not, No, It's it's impossible to be.
Speaker 1: The time in between your shots is when you want to,
Speaker 1: you know, really just kind of let your mind go
Speaker 1: and relax, enjoy the walk or enjoy the ride, depending
Speaker 1: on you know what your preference was for transportation for
Speaker 1: the day, but you know, you want to use that
Speaker 1: time to really enjoy just being out there and enjoying
Speaker 1: the fact that you're healthy enough to play a great
Speaker 1: game that you love. But now the time, the time
Speaker 1: to get you know, to clear yourself of that conscious
Speaker 1: thought is you know, we're talking about seconds of time
Speaker 1: here when you're when you're standing over the golf ball.
Speaker 1: So you know, once you the process really starts when
Speaker 1: you take your club out of the bag and you
Speaker 1: you know, in your preshot routine, you want to visualize
Speaker 1: the type of shot that you're going to hit, pick
Speaker 1: the specific target, and take what I call a four
Speaker 1: second time out. And what that is is just closing
Speaker 1: your eyes for four seconds, taking a nice deep breath
Speaker 1: in through your nose, breathing from your belly or from
Speaker 1: your diaphragm, and then two seconds in and then two
Speaker 1: seconds out through your mouth with your eyes closed while
Speaker 1: you are physically stopped. When you physically stop moving, it
Speaker 1: stops your thought process, it changes your physiology. And when
Speaker 1: you take literally four seconds to a couple couple seconds in,
Speaker 1: a couple seconds out to just breathe and relax, it
Speaker 1: is the most calming feeling that that you can imagine.
Speaker 1: It literally takes four seconds. Now, if you're getting further
Speaker 1: and further on in the match, and you know what,
Speaker 1: my hands are still shaking, I'm still feeling that anxiety
Speaker 1: that four seconds didn't do it. Well, Just you do
Speaker 1: it again, and do it a third time. If you
Speaker 1: need to do it behind the ball, do it away
Speaker 1: from the ball, do it in between shots, do it
Speaker 1: prior to your round, do it off the course, do
Speaker 1: it throughout the day. I do it all the time, Fred.
Speaker 1: It is the most simplistic, relaxing, calming thing that you
Speaker 1: can do for yourself, and it completely completely changes your
Speaker 1: physiology immediately and changes your perspective.
Speaker 4: So now that.
Speaker 1: You've taken that time behind the ball, you visualize your shot,
Speaker 1: you've identified your target. As you walk up to the ball,
Speaker 1: you let all of that go. Now all you're going
Speaker 1: to do. You already rehearse your swing. So now all
Speaker 1: you're going to do is just step up to the ball,
Speaker 1: make sure that you're aligned properly, and swing, just swing.
Speaker 1: You want to swing free of any conscious thought. And
Speaker 1: it takes time, It takes practice, it takes conditioning. But
Speaker 1: if you're doing it at the range. It's so much
Speaker 1: easier to do on the golf course because what do
Speaker 1: we do with the range.
Speaker 4: We fire golf balls or golf balls or.
Speaker 1: Golf ball we feel great, we're hitting the same club
Speaker 1: over and over. Why not practice this pre shot routine
Speaker 1: every single time at the range. Now, what you're doing
Speaker 1: is you're balancing the scale between play and practice, and
Speaker 1: you're going through the same process and the same pre
Speaker 1: shot routine to get into the zone every time you
Speaker 1: practice and every time you play.
Speaker 3: You know, we've been talking for almost a half hour
Speaker 3: now and you opened up with and we've never followed
Speaker 3: up on your three step approach, So let's start talking
Speaker 3: about the three step approach.
Speaker 1: That sounds great, yeah, and from an on course perspective,
Speaker 1: but it's really simple. It's showing up to the course
Speaker 1: feeling one hundred percent ready. And the way that that
Speaker 1: happens is with the mental game strategy. That step one
Speaker 1: is playing one hundred percent ready. Step two is getting
Speaker 1: in the zone and every shot, and we talked about
Speaker 1: the process to do that, and then step three is
Speaker 1: focusing on three positives. Is at the end of every
Speaker 1: round in every practice session. Again, we talked about all
Speaker 1: the would have, could have, should have is that golfers
Speaker 1: like to focus on. But let's transform that communication process
Speaker 1: and that thought process post round, post practice session and
Speaker 1: immediately identify, Okay, what are three positives from today? Because
Speaker 1: what that does it allows you not only allows you
Speaker 1: to enjoy the game better, but really identify some good
Speaker 1: things that happened today even though you feel like maybe
Speaker 1: nothing really did.
Speaker 4: But it also allows you to view your.
Speaker 1: Game more objectively, so you're not getting so caught up
Speaker 1: and man, what happened with my swing today? I was
Speaker 1: great on the range. Yesterday I was great on the range.
Speaker 1: Before my round I fell apart on the course again.
Speaker 1: So if you're constantly focusing on the positives, you're not
Speaker 1: going to put so much focus on your swing. So
Speaker 1: step one is to show up one hundred percent ready.
Speaker 1: Step two is to get in the zone in every shot,
Speaker 1: and then step three is to always focus on the
Speaker 1: positives that's on the course, off of the golf course.
Speaker 1: We put together a process that is backed by science.
Speaker 1: So we've developed a mental game assessment with PhD. Jonathan
Speaker 1: Rich that assesses you in eight key mental and emotional
Speaker 1: traits and Once you complete the assessment, you go through
Speaker 1: a review session with me where I can allow you
Speaker 1: to understand what all this information means to you and
Speaker 1: your game, but also give you a custom learning path
Speaker 1: that's going to allow you to play your best golf ever.
Speaker 1: So step one off of the golf course is to
Speaker 1: take the mental game assessment, go through the review.
Speaker 4: Session with me.
Speaker 1: Step two is to go into our one hundred percent
Speaker 1: Ready coaching program.
Speaker 4: Whether that be one on one with me or our live.
Speaker 1: Group sessions that are going to be held via Google
Speaker 1: Hangout and they're also recorded, allowing you to have this
Speaker 1: information forever. That's done in the group format. And then
Speaker 1: step three is to use one of the most what
Speaker 1: I think are innovative coaching tools as well as playing
Speaker 1: tools for the mental and emotional game, which is called
Speaker 1: our Head Coach Learning App. And what that is Fred,
Speaker 1: It's an opportunity for you to track some mental and
Speaker 1: emotional data from your round. Have you identify what your
Speaker 1: mental game strategy was prior to your round, how effective
Speaker 1: it was, how committed you were to it, what was
Speaker 1: your confidence level today? What percentage of shots were you
Speaker 1: one hundred percent ready? What were your three positives from
Speaker 1: the round. So now what you're doing is you're starting
Speaker 1: to track that intangible information from the mental and emotional
Speaker 1: game and not only do it on a daily basis,
Speaker 1: but allow yourself to use it as a learning tool
Speaker 1: to go back and say, Okay, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: use my swing as my benchmark for performance today. Let
Speaker 1: me start with what I was thinking about, what I
Speaker 1: was feeling, Did I fall into any specific and traps.
Speaker 1: What was my confidence level on a scale of one
Speaker 1: to ten going into today's round. Now you're allowing yourself
Speaker 1: to view some really critical data with an objective perspective.
Speaker 1: So it allows you to become your own coach, so
Speaker 1: to speak. But if you're a coach working with a player,
Speaker 1: whether it be a high school team or a collegiate team,
Speaker 1: or a PGA teaching pro working with your student, this
Speaker 1: gives you a whole new perspective on your player's game
Speaker 1: or your own game, because now you're able to tangibly
Speaker 1: identify some key data points on the mental and emotional
Speaker 1: side of the game, and the way that you perceive
Speaker 1: your game is totally different. The way that you view
Speaker 1: your game is completely different. The way you approach the
Speaker 1: game becomes completely different and you have data that you
Speaker 1: can use to constantly learn from every single time you
Speaker 1: go to the golf course.
Speaker 3: You mentioned an app.
Speaker 4: Did you yes?
Speaker 3: Tell me more about the app and how we can
Speaker 3: find it.
Speaker 1: Excellent question. We are in a beta phase with it
Speaker 1: right now. We're in phase two of the beta phase
Speaker 1: with it currently fed. We're looking for ten golfers actually
Speaker 1: we're down to nine currently that want to participate in
Speaker 1: the beta of the product, and it's going to become
Speaker 1: a mobile app within the next ninety days. But right now,
Speaker 1: what we have is a way for you to gather
Speaker 1: all this information online and the best part about it
Speaker 1: is it takes about ninety seconds to two minutes to
Speaker 1: complete after the round. So we've got a couple of
Speaker 1: PhDs that we're working with on the front end with
Speaker 1: the mental game Assessment with PhD Jonathan Rich and now
Speaker 1: we're working with PhD Casey Debrian to further develop the
Speaker 1: head Coach learning app and making a mobile tool that
Speaker 1: you can that you can bring to the golf course
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 3: You only want ten people.
Speaker 4: That's what we're looking for currently.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you're gonna get that from this audience. That
Speaker 3: sounds great, So how do they get in touch with you?
Speaker 3: How do they get to be the first ten? And
Speaker 3: what if they're number eleven, we'll have well thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, we'll.
Speaker 4: Have to set up beta group number two.
Speaker 1: But now it's a great question, Fred, and the best
Speaker 1: way to contact me is Greg Jerg at my Mental
Speaker 1: game coach dot com and let me know that you're
Speaker 1: interested in participating in the beta. It really is everybody
Speaker 1: talks about all I have a revolutionary product for the
Speaker 1: game and innovative product. This is something that I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it doesn't exist anywhere else.
Speaker 4: I just we haven't seen it anywhere else.
Speaker 1: And what we're doing is we were taking a very
Speaker 1: very good product and we're going to make it great.
Speaker 1: So if anybody wants to take control of their game
Speaker 1: and be part of a very innovative mental and emotional
Speaker 1: coaching tool, please contact us to get started with it.
Speaker 3: And please, if you do contact Greg to be part
Speaker 3: of this study, let him know that you heard about
Speaker 3: it on Golf Smarter. Absolutely yeah, And if you don't,
Speaker 3: he's going to ask how'd you hear about this? I'm
Speaker 3: want to go back into the book and pick on
Speaker 3: some more things that you talk about in there, and
Speaker 3: I want to know what you mean by being an
Speaker 3: emotional mess and how that we can get past that.
Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, and we're gonna we'll go back to the ends.
Speaker 1: But you know, again, it's it's a mentally having a
Speaker 1: mental game strategy is such a big part of this.
Speaker 4: And we'll use this as a quick exam both.
Speaker 1: You know, let's say you're going out to play in
Speaker 1: a pro am, for example, and you know there's going
Speaker 1: to be a gallery there, and there's going to be
Speaker 1: cameras there, and you're not used to playing in this environment,
Speaker 1: and you know you've played in front.
Speaker 4: Of people before, but this is this is at a
Speaker 4: whole other level.
Speaker 1: So now you know, it's very easy to be an
Speaker 1: emotional mess going into that situation because you're going to
Speaker 1: start to think about all the wrong things of you know,
Speaker 1: I hope I don't embarrass myself, and you know, I
Speaker 1: hope I don't play as bad as I did the
Speaker 1: last time I played at that particular course, or all
Speaker 1: of these things are going to go through your head.
Speaker 1: And I can relate to being an emotional mess because
Speaker 1: I carried a crippling fear of public speaking with me
Speaker 1: for many, many years, and every time that I found
Speaker 1: out that I had to speak, my heart would raise immediately,
Speaker 1: my hands would start to sweat. Almost It's almost like
Speaker 1: having a shot of adrenaline pumped into you immediately knowing
Speaker 1: that I had to go speak somewhere. I just it
Speaker 1: was my greatest weakness, and I really abhorred the thought
Speaker 1: of speaking in front of others. Well, when I finally
Speaker 1: had the the courage to join an organization called Toastmasters
Speaker 1: and overcome this faces fear and overcome it and now
Speaker 1: use it as one of my strengths. You know, it
Speaker 1: wasn't until then that I was really able to take
Speaker 1: my whole emotional mess of how I perceive myself as
Speaker 1: a public speaker, in my own self image and really
Speaker 1: transform it. And now it's it's one of my strengths.
Speaker 1: So it's the same thing with your golf game. You
Speaker 1: have to change your perception of who you are as
Speaker 1: a golfer, but you have to start practicing and playing
Speaker 1: with a mental game strategy that's going to allow you
Speaker 1: to focus on playing your best. So going back to
Speaker 1: playing in this pro am, there's a lot of different
Speaker 1: strategies that you can have. But what you want to
Speaker 1: do is put yourself in a situation where you're totally calm,
Speaker 1: totally confident, you're excited.
Speaker 4: Let's reverse that fear.
Speaker 1: Because it's it's the same chemical that's going through your body.
Speaker 1: You're just sending it down the wrong track basically, So
Speaker 1: let's take that adrenaline that's in your body, that excitement
Speaker 1: that's in your body. I talk about it in chapter
Speaker 1: one where your mind says, your mind sets stop, but
Speaker 1: your body is saying, oh, so you're feeling excited, but
Speaker 1: your mind is telling you all the wrong things.
Speaker 4: So there's a conflict that occurs. So now if you
Speaker 4: just change.
Speaker 1: Your thought process and say, hey, this is what an
Speaker 1: exciting opportunity to play in this program.
Speaker 4: I'm going to meet some great people. I'm going to
Speaker 4: go out and play the best I can play.
Speaker 1: Whatever happens happens, but you know what, I'm just going
Speaker 1: to go out and have a great time today. So again,
Speaker 1: it's it's changing your perspective. It's having a mental game strategy.
Speaker 1: It's conditioning yourself to think this way both on and
Speaker 1: off the golf course. So it all goes back to communication.
Speaker 1: But it's really about putting yourself in a situation where
Speaker 1: you're feeling one hundred percent ready going to the course
Speaker 1: on the first he standing over the golf ball every
Speaker 1: single golf shot. So playing with the mental game strategy
Speaker 1: is by far and away the most powerful concept that
Speaker 1: I teach, and it's one that can really level the
Speaker 1: playing field between practice and play.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and it's so helps to get past those first
Speaker 3: tee issues. I can't tell you how many times I've
Speaker 3: played with people who after their first t shot, they're like, Oh,
Speaker 3: this is gonna be a long day. And it's like, really,
Speaker 3: you're gonna let that shot dictate what's going to happen
Speaker 3: the rest of the four hours here?
Speaker 4: Oh, isn't an amazing Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Yes it is. It's like what And then, of course
Speaker 3: the front nine to the back nine always two completely
Speaker 3: different rounds of golf, and you're still talking about that
Speaker 3: first the first shot that you had, come on, Get
Speaker 3: past it, Get past it. How lastly, because we're gonna
Speaker 3: break soon. But increasing confidence. I know that playing with
Speaker 3: confidence is so huge. I mean when you are out
Speaker 3: there going I got it. I got this shot. Again,
Speaker 3: as we talked about early, give me the ball. But
Speaker 3: when you're playing with that kind of confidence, it really
Speaker 3: it really lowers your scores. But it only takes a
Speaker 3: three put It only takes one ball in the water
Speaker 3: to have it all come crumbling.
Speaker 1: Down, no question, no question about that one. And you know,
Speaker 1: you you you it. It happens at every level or
Speaker 1: that that that one shot, that one three putt, it
Speaker 1: can it can absolutely throw your game off. And and again,
Speaker 1: not to sound like a broken record, but that's you know,
Speaker 1: that's why playing with the mental game strategy is so important.
Speaker 1: We didn't really talk about the specific three step process
Speaker 1: to stop your answer your automatic negative thoughts, but this
Speaker 1: is a perfect example, I think to talk about it.
Speaker 1: So you know, let's say you have that three button.
Speaker 1: You're just you're cruising, You're on the fifteenth hole. You're
Speaker 1: you're just unconscious, you're not even you're not keeping track
Speaker 1: of your score, which is the proper way to play golf,
Speaker 1: by the way, you know, you're just you're just you're
Speaker 1: on cruise control and you're not thinking about the wheels
Speaker 1: falling off, and you're you are you're just beaming with confidence.
Speaker 4: You're just enjoying it.
Speaker 1: You're relaxed, you're calm, you're not getting overly excited, You're
Speaker 1: just playing right. And then all of a sudden that
Speaker 1: three button. Then you go ooh, and then maybe a
Speaker 1: thought of score might creep in and you might go, well,
Speaker 1: you know what if I can just par out here still,
Speaker 1: I know I'm going to have a great round. So
Speaker 1: now you start thinking about score, right, So it's it's
Speaker 1: interesting how that one little that one little nugget, that
Speaker 1: one little window of opportunity of a three put can
Speaker 1: cascade into another ant in another and another. So what
Speaker 1: you need to do is to what I call stop
Speaker 1: the ants dead in their tracks. And the way that
Speaker 1: you physically do it is by being aware of the
Speaker 1: fact that, Okay, hold on, this is just a trap.
Speaker 1: This is just an ant trap that I'm falling into
Speaker 1: right now. That hole is over. It never even it's
Speaker 1: it's history. The only person that's possibly thinking about your
Speaker 1: three put in the world is you.
Speaker 4: Okay, So it's history. It doesn't even exist anymore.
Speaker 1: So you have to physically stop, stop moving, take your
Speaker 1: four second time out a couple of seconds, in, couple
Speaker 1: seconds out, eyes closed, and then just revert back to
Speaker 1: what is my strategy for today? And my strategy for
Speaker 1: today's relaxed, or my strategy today is quiet mind, or
Speaker 1: my strategy today is just total focus, or my strategy
Speaker 1: today is calm, or my strategy today is.
Speaker 4: Just have fun.
Speaker 1: So that's why having a strategy and being highly cognizant
Speaker 1: and aware of your and traps both on and off
Speaker 1: the golf course, is going to help you get through
Speaker 1: those situations. And Fred, I'm not sitting here saying it's
Speaker 1: going to work every single time guaranteed.
Speaker 4: If there might be a day.
Speaker 1: Where you're just not allowing yourself to really buy into it,
Speaker 1: or you're not totally committed to your strategy, so maybe
Speaker 1: you're not one hundred percent there, maybe you're seventy eighty
Speaker 1: percent of the way there, or you just haven't done
Speaker 1: it enough so you're not conditioned enough.
Speaker 4: To really be effective at this.
Speaker 1: It takes time, it takes practice, it takes discipline, and
Speaker 1: like anything else, physical conditioning is is like thought. It's
Speaker 1: like physical conditioning. It's thought conditioning. You have to condition
Speaker 1: yourself to think better. And I have students who start
Speaker 1: with me and say, hey, Greg, you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: getting so much out of your coaching, But this is
Speaker 1: very very early on, maybe the first one or two
Speaker 1: times out on the course, somebody might say, you know,
Speaker 1: but I feel like I'm thinking more. And it's not
Speaker 1: that you're thinking more, you're just thinking differently.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: So it's like when you when you hear that song
Speaker 1: by your favorite artists for the first time and you go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what that's it's it's pretty good. You know,
Speaker 1: I kind of like not it's not like it as
Speaker 1: much as the other stuff, but I kind of like it.
Speaker 1: And then you hear three, four or five times and
Speaker 1: you go, wow, you know what want Because what happens is,
Speaker 1: you know there was there was new pathways that were
Speaker 1: being created in your brain the first time that you
Speaker 1: heard it, so it was a little bit foreign, but
Speaker 1: the more that you listen to it, the more that
Speaker 1: you liked it because now now as familiar. It's the
Speaker 1: same thing with conditioning yourself to overcome your ants or
Speaker 1: overcome these ant traps, is maybe you aren't great at
Speaker 1: it the first time out or the second or the third,
Speaker 1: but if you're constantly working at conditioning yourself to stop
Speaker 1: those ants on and off the golf course, that particular
Speaker 1: situation and maybe you know maybe it's in that that
Speaker 1: that that pressure pack situation, that's when it might really
Speaker 1: pay off because you've been working at it for so
Speaker 1: long and you've conditioned yourself to become very adept at it.
Speaker 1: So it definitely takes time, it takes practice, and it
Speaker 1: absolutely takes conditioning.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: I have a suggestion for everybody, including you, that when
Speaker 3: you start to get into your aunt traps, if you
Speaker 3: need a visual to help you remind you to get
Speaker 3: out of it, just think of the duck right and trapped,
Speaker 3: the flex duck and traps and traps.
Speaker 4: I love it. I thought I thought, you know, I
Speaker 4: thought you were gonna have to.
Speaker 1: Take take take take your ant spray out of your
Speaker 1: golf bag and spray yourself with.
Speaker 3: No no, do do that.
Speaker 4: I love the traps trap.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry it's your accent that got me there, but
Speaker 3: it's the upstate New York accent.
Speaker 1: Uh. It worked, But we just get we just with
Speaker 1: something that's going to work for something for everybody.
Speaker 3: I love it exactly.
Speaker 4: Great.
Speaker 3: Tell us how to get the book.
Speaker 1: Sure, it's either at our website at my Metal gamecoach
Speaker 1: dot com. You can you can find it there on
Speaker 1: the blog page and feel free to subscribe to our blog.
Speaker 4: We're doing two video blog posts every single week.
Speaker 1: Now and they're they're fun, they're creative, they're innovative, they're
Speaker 1: all unique, and it's it's you know, they're they're about
Speaker 1: a minute or two in length, so they're they're very
Speaker 1: short and very direct to the point, and they will
Speaker 1: definitely help transform the way you think about your game
Speaker 1: on and off the golf course. So that the book
Speaker 1: is definitely available through the website, but it's also available
Speaker 1: on Amazon. It's just if you just type in eighteen holes.
Speaker 1: I think it might come up first. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I Fred it comes up first on my left the.
Speaker 3: Search because exactly you typed it in many times.
Speaker 1: Eighteen holes. Greg Loberto l I B E r t O.
Speaker 1: Will absolutely help you find it on Amazon. So you
Speaker 1: can get the print version on Amazon or the Kindo version.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit less than eighteen dollars. Eighteen Holes
Speaker 1: is eighteen game changing tips to play your best golf ever.
Speaker 1: It's literally, as you probably saw, Fred, it's about an
Speaker 1: eighteen minute read, it's about a minute per chapter, and
Speaker 1: it really is the bestest way to improve your game.
Speaker 3: Great how about a quick tip here on the three
Speaker 3: step approach from your book Eighteen Holes.
Speaker 4: Sounds great.
Speaker 1: So step one is to definitely play with the mental
Speaker 1: game strategy, and we want you to be one hundred
Speaker 1: percent ready arriving to the golf course on the first
Speaker 1: tee and every te elsewhere. And step two is to
Speaker 1: get in the zone in every single shot. And one
Speaker 1: of the ways that we talked about doing that is
Speaker 1: to take a four second timeout, which is to demonstrate
Speaker 1: very quickly here Fred, it's to close your eyes and
Speaker 1: you're going to breathe in from the belly or from
Speaker 1: the diaphragm for two seconds, so it's in through the nose.
Speaker 4: And two seconds out. Okay. So I know it's hard
Speaker 4: for most people to do that.
Speaker 1: They think, Oh, I don't want to embarrass myself in
Speaker 1: front of other players or especially in front of my opponent.
Speaker 4: It feels kind of weird.
Speaker 1: Practice it on the range, practice it away from your shot,
Speaker 1: but allow yourself to be totally calm, totally confident, and
Speaker 1: just eliminate those ants or those automatic negative thoughts that
Speaker 1: are going to creep in the way when you're playing
Speaker 1: in competition or whenever it might be out on the
Speaker 1: golf course and just allow yourself to perform in your
Speaker 1: most natural state and just swing. So that's step two
Speaker 1: is to get in the zone. And then step three
Speaker 1: is to focus on three positives at the end of
Speaker 1: your round or the end of your practice session. What
Speaker 1: do we talk about earlier today every golfer likes to
Speaker 1: focus on that would have, could have, should have? Is
Speaker 1: how about the three things that went well today? You
Speaker 1: probably made a putt if you played eighteen holes of golf,
Speaker 1: maybe somewhere along the way you got a lucky bouncer,
Speaker 1: you made a great par saving put or maybe you
Speaker 1: know what, you had that one t shot on that
Speaker 1: one hole that you usually have a tendency to go
Speaker 1: out and bounds in that hole, but for some reason,
Speaker 1: I striped it right down the middle. Okay, So three
Speaker 1: positives after every single round, every single every single practice session.
Speaker 1: And you said, simple three step approach to allow yourself
Speaker 1: to transform the way that you communicate from start to
Speaker 1: finish and go out and play your best golf ever.